Mr Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés > Baker McKenzie Chile > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Baker McKenzie Chile‘s nine-member antitrust team in Santiago has longstanding experience in antitrust issues, including private competition litigation, merger control, and cartel (and other conduct) investigations. It also assists with compliance work and internal investigations. The practice’s client base takes in the banking, healthcare, insurance, retail, infrastructure, aviation, telecoms, and mining sectors; and the local team is additionally able to leverage the firm’s enviable global competition practice across 47 jurisdictions. Heading the firm’s dispute resolution and antitrust practice groups, Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés ‘conveys peace of mind with his advice’; he is flanked by Diego Ferrada, a telecoms and technology specialist. The antitrust experience of associate Juan Ignacio Donoso covers cartels, mergers, abuse of dominance cases and compliance.

The 11-strong arbitration team at Baker McKenzie Chile specialises in complex national and international arbitrations, particularly infrastructure project, securities and mining-related disputes. The firm’s dispute resolution practice in Chile is led by Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés, whose track record covers disputes over energy contracts, construction, projects and investment protection. The practice further includes Ignacio Naudon, who maintains a broad disputes caseload. At associate level, Arantxa Ereche acts in domestic and international arbitrations, while Felipe Soza focuses on public, civil and commercial law-related litigation and arbitration. Senior associate and international commercial and investor-state arbitration expert, Juan Pablo Labbé, was hired in January 2024 from Jana & Gil Dispute Resolution, while Antonio López exited the firm in October 2023.

Baker McKenzie Chile‘s ‘team demonstrates deep knowledge of Chilean legislation, jurisprudence and market practices’. The 10-strong litigation group has a notable track record for large-value litigation involving construction, infrastructure, large-scale energy projects and pension funds. It is also routinely mandated for high-profile class actions involving companies from the retail, consumer, pensions and healthcare sectors. The firm’s dispute resolution offering in Chile is led by Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés, whose experience includes acting for the Chilean State, international companies and domestic businesses in conflicts concerning long-term energy contracts, construction, projects and investment protection. Providing key support, Ignacio Naudon‘s wide-ranging disputes expertise covers class actions, infrastructure projects, construction contracts, distribution agreements, securities, corporate law and M&A. At associate level, Felipe Soza focuses on public, civil and commercial law-related litigation and arbitration; while international commercial and investor-state arbitration senior Juan Pablo Labbé is a January 2024 hire from Jana & Gil Dispute Resolution.

Baker McKenzie Chile’s public law team primarily acts for clients from the healthcare, insurance, infrastructure, construction, mining, pharmaceutical, and defence and aerospace sectors. The group has amassed notable experience in state contract-related investment protection issues, as well as public procurement work. Focused on contentious matters, group head Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés is a longstanding constitutional, public and administrative law expert, who is also the firm’s Latin America dispute resolution group head. Litigation and arbitration associate Felipe Soza is experienced in public works concession agreements, constitutional actions, administrative sanctioning procedures, and public contracting and procurement.